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mircea_popescu: The notion of decentralized reputation occurs to them. I have the urge to interject but it’s not question time…
mircea_popescu: 12:15: BitPay proposes reputation as a solution, neat. Hearn says it’s a little known fact that Satoshi was working on a peer to peer market that consisted of a reputation system. He wonders what Bitcoin would have looked like if he has worked on it 6 more months.
mircea_popescu: " The host notes that these 4 panelists represent 95% of the significant Bitcoin businesses via their investments."
mircea_popescu: whoa shit look at that, trilema comment ocunter crossed 100k
mircea_popescu: princessnell: easier to entice a man who can do it for us << this is such nonsense, srsly.
mircea_popescu: the absence of visible putrefacting corpses however encourages the braindead to pretend they're ceos rather than brain surgeons
mircea_popescu: like really, really hard. like brain surgeon level hard.
mircea_popescu: bounce: so far the wimminz ceoz in bitcoinz ended up ded << being a ceo is hard.
mircea_popescu: only for you to discover that dust actually completely clogged the cpu fan
mircea_popescu: that precious moment when your system croaks under your hands
mircea_popescu: the gypsyes of timisoara will be better dressed than the bitcoin entrepreneurs & vcs and whatnot other pretenders assembled at the bitcoin derpference.
mircea_popescu: jurov: so, by this theory, mircea_popescu should not mind all this feminish buzz cuz he's enjoying bitches anyway :D << i don't mind it in the slightest. anti-male legislation helps the male owner of a harem of females most of all.
mircea_popescu: benkay: is a wallet that maintains a dollar value via autotrading even feasible? << it has got to be a parody.
mircea_popescu: lampelina: I'm way too stupid to hack anything, kakobrekla will confirm << are you two sore at each other atm ?
mircea_popescu: fucktards giving themselves the imaginary choice between steak and prime rib when they can barely spring for the ramen.
mircea_popescu: Nautiluscoin is either the greatest troll, or a significant advancement in crypto. Im going w/ significant." how about... neither. it's not even marginally interesting.
mircea_popescu: jurov: i undertood that as "replace karpeles and pierce with bots" << apt.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I actually really hope this happens, it will make the foundation obselete << a) it can't happen ; b) it doesn't compete with the foundation any more than workout videos compete with feminism.
mircea_popescu: "Sam Knight @samknight1 · May 16 What if global warming *is* a hoax and we clean up our air and oceans, create millions of jobs, and become energy independent for nothing?"
mircea_popescu: because human beings being the shits they are, unless you get their balls in a vice they just won't perform.
mircea_popescu: quite decentralised. i bet the overstuck guy, w/e his name is, has no fucking idea what exactly "issuing shares on top of blockchain" really means.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile over at reality ranch, "11bet.org as the football quizzes website of the item, it is the key development direction to expand Website traffic, it will support many kind of virtual currencies to bet."
mircea_popescu: like, social media, naive email, what have you. it wouldn't surprise me if it turns out real gdp is in the low single digit %s of what it should be.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what the aggreegated loss to the world's gdp due to people using anything other than wot based systems to communicate comes to.
mircea_popescu: the bane of not having a wot-based filtering mechanism : you can't have means of contact
mircea_popescu: i thought you were actually setting up fonts and whatnot
mircea_popescu: im the only one that says "you don't know shit from ass" and actually means it, then ?
mircea_popescu: "Dr. Alice Weaver Flaherty is a neurologist known for her award-winning book about the neural basis of creativity titled the Midnight Disease."
mircea_popescu: i swear it's how the translator in my head goes, which is why i almost never discuss bitcoin with noobs.
mircea_popescu: "i don't want to know about umbrellas because i don't like rain. also, baths are better"
mircea_popescu: in what sort of sf universe does this hold true ? how would it ?
mircea_popescu: there's this incomprehensible (to me) tendency to approach non-bitcoin people as if they were somehow... i dunno, almost human.
mircea_popescu: Waxman and Geschwind were the first to describe hypergraphia. The patients they observed displayed extensively compulsive detailed writing, sometimes with literary creativity. The patients kept diaries, which some used to meticulously document minute details of their everyday activities, write poetry, or create lists. Case 1 of their study wrote lists of her relatives, her likes and dislikes, and the furniture in her a
mircea_popescu: well sure they will. this is unsurprising. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: so if people with millions and actual lawyers do this... why shouldn't some famished internet expert / seo master / etc
mircea_popescu: and they're quite happy to hate anyone who will show that difference, or they merely perceive as capable to
mircea_popescu: but that notwithstanding, inasmuch as they can't tell the difference between "it" and it they're quite happy